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- Ahlberg, Beth Maina, et al.
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'It's only a tradition' : making sense of eradication interventions and the persistence of female 'circumcision' within a Swedish context
- 2004
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Ingår i: Critical Social Policy. - London : Sage Publications. - 0261-0183 .- 1461-703X. ; 24:1, s. 50-78
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper questions why female circumcision (FC) persists despite eradication interventions and the migration of people to non-practising countries and discusses the reasoning of Somali immigrants on female circumcision. It is based on interviews with diverse groups and individuals in the Somali community, mostly refugees in Sweden. Paradoxes implying denial and avoidance emerged. Female circumcision was described, as just 'a tradition' that has little to do with Islam. The fear of bringing up an uncircumcised daughter in the liberal sexual morality of Sweden was mentioned as a dilemma. Circumcised women said the health care they received during pregnancy and childbirth was poor while the law failed to take account of the experiences of the Somali people. We conclude that rather than eradication, interventions seem to have silenced and stigmatized the practice due to their failure to take account of its meanings, organization and contexts, including the diasporic dynamics within which immigrants negotiate identities.
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- Fernqvist, Stina, 1977-, et al.
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Guaranteed or conditional child maintenance? Examining the 2016 reform in Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Critical Social Policy. - : SAGE Publications. - 0261-0183 .- 1461-703X. ; 42:3, s. 428-447
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Family policies promoting gender equality and parents’ shared responsibility for their children tend to assume good parental collaboration post separation. However, this assumption obscures the reality of conflict and intimate partner violence (IPV) in some separated families. Focusing on Sweden, this article examines the 2016 reform which implies that the state ceases acting as an intermediary to organise child maintenance unless ‘special reasons’, including the experience of IPV, are invoked. Thus, the Swedish guaranteed child maintenance scheme became conditional. Drawing on interviews with resident parents and case officers at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (SSIA), this article suggests that the reform increases the vulnerability of resident parents in several ways. Moreover, the ‘special reasons’ exemption creates a new distinction between ‘violent’ and ‘normal’ families, which case workers struggle to administer, and which leads to a withdrawal of state support for many families.
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- Giansanti, Enrico, et al.
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The status of homelessness: Access to housing for asylum-seeking migrants as an instrument of migration control in Italy and Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Critical Social Policy. - : SAGE Publications. - 0261-0183 .- 1461-703X. ; 42:4, s. 586-606
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Homelessness and other forms of destitution among asylum-seeking migrants are currently on the rise across Europe, as migrants’ access to social rights, including housing, has been restricted through repressive migration policies, fuelled by the welfare nationalism and chauvinism that surge among European states. This article explores the largely overlooked homelessness experienced by migrants seeking asylum in two different geographic and political contexts: Italy and Sweden. Building on research conducted over six years, including interviews with state officials, social and NGO workers, and testimonies of asylum-seeking migrants, we trace the logics and effects of policies that not only fail to deliver minimum welfare provisions to asylum-seeking migrants, but which produce and use homelessness as a way of controlling this group. The implications for asylum-seeking migrants include racialised discrimination, class-based and poverty-related health issues, and other harms, which are the direct result of policies that render access to fundamental social rights, including housing, into instruments of migration control.
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- Harrysson, Lars, et al.
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Preparations for retirement in Sweden: Migrant perspectives
- 2016
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Ingår i: Critical Social Policy. - : SAGE Publications. - 0261-0183 .- 1461-703X. ; 36:4, s. 531-550
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Migrants as a group are recognised as being at risk of receiving low retirement pensions. Income over a lifetime is the principle for calculating pension rights. We have interviewed a group of migrants about their retirement preparations. Our results show that there are obstacles that obstruct migrants from entering the Swedish labour market, which will greatly influence future pension rights. There are various lock-in effects that isolate migrants from the labour market and thus affect their present and future financial situation. Examples are labour market policy activities and that the minimum level pensions have mobility restrictions. These trajectories are set in perspective to Nancy Fraser’s reasoning on justice in a transnational setting and Yeheskel Hasenfeld’s reflections on people processing. An important implication from our findings is the need to explore ways to include a group that is currently excluded from the labour market, hence adequate retirement income protection.
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- Hearn, Jeff
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Reflecting on men and social policy: Contemporary critical debates and implications for social policy
- 2010
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Ingår i: CRITICAL SOCIAL POLICY. - London : Sage Pubications. - 0261-0183 .- 1461-703X. ; 30:2, s. 165-188
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To put men and social policy together may still seem a little strange. Yet there are numerous ways in which social policy is about men, in its formulation, implementation, delivery, and inclusions/exclusions. Different men have variable relations to social policy, and are involved and implicated in social policy in a wide variety of ways, as: users, family members, practitioners, managers, policy makers, members of social organizations, and so on. Likewise, the explicit gendering and naming of men is uneven in different social policy arenas. This article discusses contemporary debates in Critical Studies on Men - masculinity and multiple masculinities; hegemonic masculinity and the hegemony of men; embodiment; and transnationalization and virtualization - and in each case considers their implications for social policy, before some concluding remarks.
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- Hyötyläinen, Mika
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Labour-saving technology and advanced marginality – A study of unemployed workers’ experiences of displacement in Finland
- 2021
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Ingår i: Critical Social Policy. - : SAGE Publications. - 0261-0183 .- 1461-703X. ; 42:2, s. 285-305
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article explores the experiences of people displaced from work by the introduction of labour-saving technology in Finland. Interviews with 13 unemployed individuals are used as data. The study is underpinned by a Marxist interpretation of potentially emancipatory technology under capitalism reduced to an instrument for reorganizing skilled workers into an exploitable, precarious cadre of surplus and abstract labour. Loïc Wacquant’s thesis on advanced marginality is used as a theoretical framework to unpack and understand the little-studied experience of being displaced from work by technology. The interviewees share a sense of growing alienation and social exclusion. Feeding these experiences are capricious changes in skill-demands and deskilling under automation and robotisation of work. The experiences are exacerbated by digitalised, vertiginous and isolating job-seeking and employment services that cast responsibility on the unemployed individual. While the participants of this study were not on the brink of acute or extreme socio-economic marginalisation, their experiences are rooted in the very same social, economic and political dynamics as advanced marginality. The findings of the study help anticipate the risk of advancing marginality faced by displaced workers, if social policy reforms are not carried out in the short term. In the long term, the findings support the argument that studies on labour-saving technologies and unemployment pay closer attention to the particular role of technology under capitalism.
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- Jansson-Keshavarz, Sofi, et al.
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Housing and temporary legality : The evictability and settlement of refugees in Swedish municipalities
- 2024
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Ingår i: Critical Social Policy. - : Sage Publications. - 0261-0183 .- 1461-703X.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores four Swedish municipalities which have reacted differently to legislation aiming to regulate a 'fair and equal' distribution of refugees: from barefaced rejection to the advocacy of refugee settlement as an investment in future citizens. Interviews with people who work with settlement show that housing is made central in different municipal strategies and creates an unequal landscape of evictability for refugees depending on where they are placed. Temporary and conditional residence permits for refugees, which have been made standard in this time of temporary legality, are simultaneously dependent on settlement strategies in municipalities: housing and access to jobs determine whether you can stay or stay with your family. This deportability of refugees is what is at stake. Yet access to housing is continuously treated as a mundane 'service': both in the categorical denial of housing and in the evaluation of what can qualify refugees to deserve settlement.
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